15 May
2018
15 May
'18
5:13 p.m.
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
So what's the back story with PWB? It seems like
sort of a back water
but as I recall, they had some interesting stuff. I feel like there
was a "learn" command and another one that tried to tell you about
common grammer (english, not yacc) problems in your prose. So far
as I know, those didn't make it into the mainstream, or if they did,
they were weak reimplementations that didn't work as well as the
originals.
learn was in BSD distributions, though they never made the leap to
{Net,Open,Free}BSD in any useful way because the source material had become
dated by then.
Warner
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:55:24AM -0400, Clem cole
wrote:
The PWB children used -mm I seem to remember
that the base system 3 and
maybe the original sysv did not include it since troff
was not apart. If
you pulled from BSD or ditroff; you got it.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
quite.
> On May 15, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/05/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote (in part):
> > > I had a boss once who demanded that we learn -mm; for some reason
I
still
> > > preferred -ms, as it somehow
seemed more "natural", and I still
use it to
> > > this day (well, when I'm not
using the Mac, that is).
> >
> > Why not? The Mac has it: /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac/s.tmac
>
> I have some vague distant memory of a commercial Unix variant that
came with
troff and the -mm macros, but without -ms. I can't remember which
it was (or if I'm just imagining things). Anyone have any ideas?
>
> - Dan C.
>
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